Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu

Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu (1492-9 January 1539) was an English nobleman. In 1539, Pole and several other family members of Reginald Pole were executed due to Reginald's opposition to King Henry VIII.

Biography
Henry Pole was the oldest son of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, and he was the brother of Reginald Pole. He was invested as a knight by King Henry VIII in 1513 and summoned to Parliament as Baron Montagu in 1514. He was appointed steward of manors for the Tewkesbury Abbey in 1526, justice of the peace for Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, and Sussex in 1530, and one of the peers in the trial of Anne Boleyn in 1536. In 1538, Montagu and other relatives of Reginald Pole were arrested and charged with treason, although they were innocent. Henry was beheaded on 9 January 1539.